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To: Gov. Jerry Brown

SB10 is not REAL bail reform. Tell Gov. Jerry Brown: Veto SB10.

SB10 is not the bail reform our people deserve. Veto the bill.

Why is this important?

California Bail Reform has been hijacked and we must stop a dangerous bill. Last year, thousands of people stood up to demand real bail reform in California by supporting Senate Bill 10, a bill that Senator Bob Hertzberg championed. But this week, Senator Hertzberg is rushing a completely gutted version of SB 10 to a vote on the CA assembly floor, and it's bad. After nearly 2 years of advocacy and grassroots groups fighting for real bail reform, Senator Hertzberg has yielded to pressure from California’s Judicial Council introducing new language that will lead to more people locked up and entrenched racial bias in CA’s pretrial system. Yes, that Judicial Council. The very same council that had that horrific Black-face, incarceration-themed office party last year. This new bill places all the power in their hands.

In a bait and switch, the CA Judicial Council and Probation Department urged Senator Hertzberg to gut the bill and introduce a new scheme. SB 10 now replaces money bail with a system that makes it easier to incarcerate legally innocent people.

This is not at all the bail reform our communities deserve and have long fought for. We want to end the predatory money bail industry, but not like this. This new SB 10 will completely derail any progress in the fight to truly end pretrial injustice in the state of California and will have national ramifications. We don’t need legislation that uses a different mechanism to keep communities of color incarcerated -- we need real reform. Our fight must grow louder and stronger.

California, USA

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Updates

2018-08-18 05:57:52 -0700

1,000 signatures reached

2018-08-17 15:13:15 -0700

500 signatures reached

2018-08-17 11:03:08 -0700

100 signatures reached

2018-08-16 17:41:07 -0700

50 signatures reached

2018-08-15 09:07:26 -0700

25 signatures reached

2018-08-14 16:19:26 -0700

10 signatures reached